Simply Simple

vent plates or silverware from being placed.    I have never understood the desire to say cut a cutting off a plant and hope to see it in ten years become a beautiful big plant.  Seriously, remember, I need immediate gratification.  This also shows in my garden.  It is hard for me to buy little flowers, waiting for the moment when they fill in and make a beautiful basket.   I need to see color NOW.  

The word simplicity implies to me being in control, a downsized situation, and a time saver.

Now, this does not seem to be in my brain, vocabulary, or whatever.  You see, I never seem to do things simply. 

As my husband would say, “There is one way to do things and that is the right way.” Well, I love to create, decorate, and any

thing that challenges my brain, and also seems to make a lovely mess.  I never seem to do things simply, but my way.  I like over-the-top sorts of things, such as flower arranging.  I have been known to fill up a table with grandiose decorations that pre

When I decorate, I don’t like big empty spaces.  I like to make little areas such as a sitting area, a music area, conversation area.  If I had a big, big room, I would chop it into cozy separate areas and decorate each one individually.  You see, nothing too simple!!

Now, let’s go to the holidays.  Christmas is a good one to discuss.  Simplicity is not in my vocabulary at that time of the year for sure.  One tree, you have to be kidding.  I have had probably five trees up at one time.  Now, that is not to mention all the individual decorations that are strategically placed throughout our three floors.   I always think this year I will slow down, do things on a simpler basis, but it never ends out that way.  

One present for each grandchild?  That would be such a simple way for shopping and wrapping.  But, this goes with that, and that goes with this, and simple doesn’t cut it.  Three would be good, at least.  

I started a blue Santa collection—you know, simply a couple to put here and there. Well, you can never have too many, and they all have to show their beauty at the same time. Nothing simple.

Now, I just have to figure out how to make the time go with the project.  I have been told that I have no sense of time.  I guess that is right.  I simply want to do it all in a simple sort of way!  

You see, in my mind, there is the right way, and that is my unsimplified way.

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